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Cub Scout and Boy Scout Backpack Programs

Cub Scout backpacks that align with the new handbooks now available.

Backpack badge programs are available for Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts on a variety of dates. Backpacks include all materials necessary for leaders to guide scouts through specific badge requirements. Activities are completed in museum exhibit spaces.

Full-day general museum admission is included in the backpack experience fee so groups can explore the exhibits before or after their project.

Call 585-263-2700 to register for your Cub Scout or Boy Scout experience. (Badges and Arrow Points are not included.)

Tiger

Tiger-iffic! Elective Adventure
Visit the eGameRevolution and Game Time! exhibits to play a variety of classic and modern individual- and multi-player games. With your den, work together on a problem-solving team challenge, and change the rules of a game you know.Cost: $11 per scout; minimum 2 hours recommendedPlan this backpack experience.

Bear

Roaring Laughter Elective Adventure
Visit Reading Adventureland, act out run-on skits, and practice tongue twisters. Make a joke book, write a silly short story, and try to make each other laugh with funny faces and gestures.Cost: $11 per scout; minimum 2.5 hours recommendedPlan this backpack experience.

Game Design Elective Adventure
Explore the Game Time! exhibit to learn about game design. Once inspired, create your own board or card game and teach it to your den.Cost: $11 per scout; minimum 3 hours recommendedPlan this backpack experience.

Boy Scouts

Game Design
Complete initial Game Design merit badge requirements at the museum. Visit the eGameRevolution andGame Time! exhibits and learn about different game mediums, from board games to electronic games. Review game designer journals, examine artifacts from museum collections, and try your hand at modern and classic games. Learn gaming terminology and analyze favorite games. Receive a game design journal for use in completing the remaining badge requirements at home.Cost: $11 per scout; minimum 3 hours recommendedPlan this backpack experience.

The World Video Game Hall of Fame names the inductees for 2019: Colossal Cave Adventure, Microsoft Solitaire, Mortal Kombat, and Super Mario Kart.

Lella Gandini (center), the United States Liaison for the Dissemination of the Reggio Emilia Approach, visits the museum with her husband, Lester Little (second from left). Pictured here with The Strong’s Steve Dubnik, Debbie McCoy, Andrew Grossman, Laurie Phelps, and Lisa Feinstein.